Washington U social life

gprime
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:28:52 +0000

1) As at any university, you’ll find them to be a mixed bag. Some will be open to all, and others heavily restricted. Some will just have cheap booze that runs out quickly, and others will actually have stuff worth drinking. You’ll find drugs at some. You can hook up at them or not. Generally though, I’d say the best parties are those thrown off campus.

2) I’ve yet to meet a single person too smart to function. Certainly there are many socially obtuse individuals, but there are just as many normal people that play sports, and drinking games, and go on dates. And still the people in that second category are, on the whole, much less stupid than the general public. So this is hardly a place where one must choose between having fun and developing intellectually, and most people manage to strike a comfortable balance.

3) It certainly depends on the dorm/housing option, and I think its fair to say that the suite/apartment accomidations many find themselves in as upperclassmen are less naturally social. But in most housing, especially freshman housing, you’ll have no problem finding people to socialize with at most hours you’d likely find yourself there and awake.

4) Can’t answer as that isn’t my field of study, though I imagine “tons” would be about accurate given the complaints I often hear about it, and the fact that said major at virtually every university entails a crushing workload.

5) That question is a bit too broad for me to give a good answer. I will though say as a transfer I was surprised by just how warm and outgoing so many of the people here are. Certainly you’d meet the occasional a-hole, but on the whole, I doubt you’d find a more welcoming student body.